Autumn Frail morning sunlight shimmers on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. I clamber across black scoria rocks with my guide, emeritus Professor John Morton, now in his late seventies. We’re on Milford Reef, ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

A female employment skills course in Greymouth has helped several women into work in the environment sector on the West Coast. The Wāhine Toa course was designed by the Ministry for Social Development ...

Fiordland tourism operators say the rules governing the national park are outdated and leave no room for common sense. Each national park is required to have its management plan reviewed every 10 ...

Despite some gains last year, the Environment Ministry still does not resemble the diversity of wider society. Māori, Pasifika and Asian people are drastically under-represented in the ministry’s ...

An expert in natural disasters says it’s absolutely possible Tonga’s volcanic eruption could have sparked tsunami waves reaching 15-metres high at their peak. Five days on from one of the largest ...

Could the harm that results from recreational drug use and abuse be mostly caused by their criminalisation and demonisation rather than their physical effects? When used responsibly, can drugs can ...

Riley Elliott is a shark researcher who is determined to protect the tiger sharks off Norfolk Island, who feast on cow carcasses dumped by farmers on the old penal colony. The sharks and their ...

A curious thing happened to Rebekah White this week. While the editor of the New Zealand Geographic was walking up a river she found herself plunging into the ground! Do we have quicksand in Aotearoa?

The late satirist, John Clarke, has left another lasting legacy – this time, to conservation. The much-loved performer, who was also an avid birdwatcher and nature-lover, died while bushwalking in ...

A long-term programme to eradicate pests like possums, rats and feral cats from a large part of Banks Peninsula has been given a funding boost. The area is home to native species such as the jewelled ...

The Department of Conservation’s new visitor strategy acknowledges more work needs to be done to manage iconic sites under pressure, but does not spell out what it will implement. Today DOC unveiled ...